10 Amazing Projects Made for Science Fairs

1. A source capable of saving millions of dollarsMuch more money is spent on printing inks than we imagine. Governments, businesses, and schools can only spend millions of dollars a year alone.

Thinking about it, an American boy named Suvir Mirchandani decided to try to help the school where he studied. In order to try to save money, the boy analyzed the amount of paint used in the four main sources used by the school: Garamond , Times New Roman, Century Gothic and Comic Sans.

Easily, Mirchandani found that if the school switched all its impressions to Garamond, the institution would be able to save $ 200,000 in a year. But it does not stop there, then the boy decided to test the sources used by the American government.

Applying the same technique, he discovered that more than 100 million dollars could be saved in just one year.

2. Homemade Nuclear Reactor
Thiago Olsen does not care that we are far from large-scale nuclear power production . More than that, at only 15 years of age the boy decided to create his own nuclear reactor in the garage of home. Taking a year to research and a year to realize its “project”, Olsen is now part of a select group of 20 people who have managed to build their own reactor. Despite using nuclear power , its creation was considered safe by experts. The amount of energy generated does not even heat a cup of coffee, but even so …

3.Prostheses controlled by the mindAnand Srinivasan is also 15 years old. Known for winning several science fairs in the United States since childhood, the boy had never worked on a project as important as the White House Science Fair in 2012. During that year, Srinivasan was able to create a prosthesiscapable of obeying by nerve impulses.

For the fair, the young scientist created a robotic arm that responded to brain signals , based on electroencephalography.

4. LEGO anti-terrorist robot
For Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair, high school student Anna Simpson has decided to do work related to national security. Using pieces of Lego , the girl created a little robot capable of detecting chemical compositions.

Anna’s goal was to help the security of her country, but her creation has already received proposals from governments around the world, interested in the anti-terrorist technological device.

5. Microbe plastic dining room
Excessive plastic is one of the biggest problems in terms of global sustainability. Thinking about it, boy Daniel Burd of Canada has discovered a plastic eater microbe for the Ontario Science Fair.

To do this research, Burd thought this way: although it takes a long time to decompose, at some point it decomposes. So he decided to go after plastics that were already in that state, to find the microbes responsible for this “job” and to isolate them.

Its final product showed that in just six weeks, more than 43% of the plastic had already decomposed.

6. Space Exploration BalloonSpace travel is historically expensive. But contrary to this logic , Spanish students from the IES La Bisbal School have proved that a latex balloon and a lot of patience is enough.

Four colleagues and one teacher decided to create a prototype. The initial idea of ​​the project was a balloon that carried a sensor and a digital camera to arrive up to 10 thousand km of distance; but the experiment continued to fly up to 160,000 km.

Besides proving that it does not take millions of dollars to reach the space, the simple project managed to take beautiful photos.

7.Image based search
The case of David Liu is different. Your project does not come with the intention of saving lives or being used on a large scale, but rather to improve people’s lives . The work of the boy is based on the creation of a program (Semantic Image Retrieval and Interactive Exploration of Large Image Collections) that helps the specialized search: in this case, by images . The project was the winner of the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search.

8.Nuclear Weapon Detector
Tired of fearing the nuclear threats, the boy Taylor Wilson decided to create a detector in the garage of his house. The 17-year-old mounted a device that is capable of finding radiative materials such as an X-ray machine. His project also contained a small nuclear reactor inside the small detector, which earned him the 2011 Intel International Science Fair award.

9. Teach robots to speak
South African Luke Taylor invented a system that teaches robots to understand verbal commands. Its software allows you to translate English into the language of codes , understood by small devices. In spite of being something already “realized” world outside, the fact that the boy is only 15 years of age is not without impressive.

10.Space navigation software
Passionate about space and traveling in the unknown, Erika DeBenedictis has always liked the theme. At the age of 18, she created a method to calculate all the gravitational influence of the planets and how they move in order to facilitate spacecraft routes in the solar system . This secured first place in the Intel Science Talent Search.